Toshiba is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive storage company, offering hard disk drives (HDDs), optical disk drives (ODDs), solid state drives (SSDs) and NAND flash memories – technologies that drive a wide range of consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications as well as customer-focused enterprise solutions for the global marketplace. Through its Storage Device Division (SDD), Toshiba is a leader in delivering pioneering HDDs that enable superior form and functionality in a wide range of products from retail and mobile to enterprise applications.

Toshiba 's HDD design, development, manufacturing, sales and other infrastructure functions solidify the company's brand as a long-term premier global data storage company. Leveraging the benefits of global product development and manufacturing, Toshiba is empowered to provide innovative products to enterprise, mobile and retail customers with high-performance HDDs through its established clientele of PC and consumer electronics equipment manufacturers, consumer electronics manufacturers, automotive manufacturers and after-market suppliers, distributors, resellers, systems integrators and retailers around the world.

Toshiba is interested in being a market leader, but it is more interested in what specific customers want. Toshiba 's management makes a business of knowing the people to whom it sells and the products and services they need. The company's fundamental proposition is: "We take care of you and all your needs." Since producing its first HDD in 1967, Toshiba has spent decades developing strong partnerships with its OEM customers – some of the world's largest and best known systems and consumer electronics vendors.

As a leader in innovation, Toshiba collaborates hand in hand with its customers to develop state-of-the-art new products that push current conventions. Toshiba understands that success is not happenstance. Toshiba 's success is built on offering an unmatched total solution to its customers – a solution that includes a high-performance product at the right price, coupled with extraordinary levels of service, guidance, expertise and collaboration with its customers. Toshiba serves it customers with an emphasis on building relationships, developing an innate knowledge of customers' needs and providing a total solution.

The enterprise HDD business requires specialist knowledge and technology to cater to the needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Two of the biggest data management concerns for enterprise customers are planning for growth and protecting data from misuse and inaccessibility.

Designed to perform in demanding environments with 24/7 operation (such as workstations, SAN and NAS systems, RAID and storage subsystems), Toshiba 's enterprise hard disk drive series can be tailored to meet the customer's individual needs, providing disk drives that help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) develop the best products possible for their customers.

Toshiba is well positioned to bring its industry-leading SSDs for server and enterprise storage systems to an enterprise clientele, along with the HDDs that Toshiba has pioneered for more than 25 years. These customer-focused storage solutions enable enterprise companies to generate and store a massive amount of business data and make it accessible 24/7 with superior form and functionality in a wide range of products.

Toshiba is the undisputed leader in small form factor hard disk drives (HDD). Since first delivering 2.5-inch HDDs in 1985, Toshiba has consistently produced mobile disk drives that offer manufacturing customers unprecedented flexibility and customization in building products to fit their needs. The company's wide line of storage devices includes the industry's highest capability HDDs, with storage of up to 500GB.

Toshiba offers high-capacity 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch form factors, empowering product manufacturers with unprecedented functionality in their products. The first company to successfully manufacture the 1.8-inch HDD, Toshiba has shipped more than 70 million 1.8-inch HDDs to date and consistently holds the number one position in the 1.8-inch HDD segment. A leader in emerging technologies and standards, Toshiba was the first HDD manufacturer to commercialize perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) for HDDs, nearly seven months before other HDD suppliers. Toshiba continues to leverage PMR with the addition of advanced recording systems and new media technologies.

Toshiba storage products are used in many of today's hottest consumer electronics products, with storage solutions specifically designed to meet the demands of a number of increasingly sophisticated applications such as PCs, gaming consoles, personal storage devices, digital video recorders, portable media players, handheld GPS navigation devices, digital audio players and other CE products. The company's mobile HDDs are optimized with increased shock resistance and lower power requirements, creating products with industry-leading reliability.

Toshiba has worked with the automotive industry for more than 10 years to perfect its auto-grade HDD technology, enabling automotive system designers to utilize the latest ruggedized and temperature-enhanced automotive-grade hard disk drives for in-car navigation, infotainment and other automotive applications. Since introducing the industry's first automotive-grade HDD in 2001, Toshiba has shipped more than 10 million automotive-grade HDDs and continues to dominate this specialty market with greater than 80% market share.

Toshiba entered the portable hard drive market in 2007. The digital storage market for consumers continues to grow at a rapid pace – especially when treasured digital content such as music, video, photos and games become a part of our computing lives. Toshiba 's external hard drives provide peace of mind in knowing all of your photos, personal music selections, movies and critical documents are backed up, protected and portable. Toshiba 's focus on ease of use and striking design has been well received by consumers worldwide. The current product line offers simple, easy-to-use information backup in capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB.

Toshiba is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disk drives, the primary medium used to store digital information in systems ranging from desktop computers and consumer electronics to data centers that deliver information across corporate networks and the Internet. Toshiba is the only company that can provide its customers with hard disk drives, optical disk drives, solid state drives and NAND flash memories. Toshiba has been providing storage solutions worldwide since 1967 and leverages an annual $3.1 billion investment in research and development that translates into innovative storage technologies for products and solutions that meet the requirements of a variety of markets.

Toshiba Storage Device Division deploys a global innovation network, with product development centers and manufacturing located in Japan , China , United States , Europe, Thailand and the Philippines . By integrating global collaboration with key strategic supplier relationships, Toshiba ensures that its product plans and strategies are attuned to the needs of the customer and the markets they serve. The global network is advantageous not only in terms of the quality and speed of the innovation process but also in its cost-efficient performance and effectiveness.

In accordance with the commitment of Toshiba Group, "Committed to People. Committed to the Future," Toshiba Corporation aims to contribute to global well-being through environmentally and socially considerate business activities, including the research and development of environmentally-conscious new technologies for next generation products. Since launching its voluntary corporate responsibility program in 1989, Toshiba has made a concerted effort to continuously improve its environmental management systems and operations through internal audits and management reviews. The company uses "Factor T," an eco-efficiency indicator for all products to assess the overall value of the product as well as the environmental impact of the processes used bring the product to market.

Toshiba utilizes a customer-focused and full-service approach to storage solutions for the global hard disk drive marketplace. The company is committed to the data storage market and defines the standard for product and service excellence with world-class operations, substantial technical knowledge and a comprehensive customer support infrastructure. With substantial and dedicated research and development, Toshiba is positioned to inspire and lead the future of storage technologies.

Toshiba is a one-of-a-kind global storage company, offering hard disk drives (HDDs), optical disk drives (ODDs), solid state drives (SSDs) and NAND flash memories – technologies that drive a wide range of consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications as well as enterprise solutions for the global marketplace. Through its Storage Device Division, Toshiba leads in the development, design and manufacturing of mobile, retail, and enterprise hard disk drives. Toshiba SDD markets high-quality peripherals to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, value-added resellers, value-added dealers, systems integrators, distributors and retailers worldwide. Inherent in the Toshiba storage family are the high-quality engineering and manufacturing capabilities that have established Toshiba products as innovation leaders worldwide. For more information, visit www.toshibastorage.com.

Headquartered in Irvine , Calif. , TAIS is comprised of four business units: Digital Products Division, Imaging Systems Division, Storage Device Division, and Telecommunication Systems Division. Together, these divisions provide mobile products and solutions, including industry leading portable computers; projectors; imaging products for the security, medical and manufacturing markets; storage products for automotive, computer and consumer electronics applications; and telephony equipment and associated applications.

TAIS provides sales, marketing and services for its wide range of information products in the United States and Latin America . TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation. Toshiba Corporation is a world leader and innovator in high technology, a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products. These products span from information & communications systems; digital consumer products; electronic devices and components; as well as power systems including nuclear energy; industrial and social infrastructure systems; and home appliances. Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 730 companies, with 199,000 employees worldwide and annual sales surpassing US $67 billion (FY 2008). For more information on Toshiba's leading innovations, visit the company's Web site at www.toshiba.com.